On Sat, Jun 2, 2012 at 5:35 PM, Bill Allombert <bill.allomb...@math.u-bordeaux1.fr> wrote: > On Thu, May 31, 2012 at 05:19:04PM -0400, Scott Howard wrote: >> On Thu, May 31, 2012 at 4:55 PM, Bill Allombert >> <bill.allomb...@math.u-bordeaux1.fr> wrote: >> > On Thu, May 31, 2012 at 04:40:23PM -0400, Scott Howard wrote: >> > >> > Why do you need multiarch support for ? >> >> eagle is compiled against libjpeg62 and the eagle binaries are only >> available as i386 (closed-sourced, pre-compiled, but distributable). >> In the past we installed the whole i32-libs package on AMD64, but if >> the libjpeg62 is multiarch we won't need ia32-libs at all and then >> AMD64 users can just "$ apt-get install eagle:i386". Right now eagle >> is uninstallable on AMD64 since libjpeg62 has not been multiarch-ed. > > Is that actually true ? I think you can actually install libjpeg62:i386 as > long as > libjpeg62:amd64 is not installed, and since nothing should depend on > libjpeg62:amd64 > anyway this is not really a problem. > > Not that I objet to add multiarch support, but that might explain why the > problem > does not occur in practice.
Exactly - it's only uninstallable if you already installed the amd64 version of libjpeg62. That's why it is only showing up for a few users while the majority don't see it. Thank you Jonas for testing libjpeg62:amd64 install libjpeg62:i386 install and eagle is working, so it looks like it's good. Thank you Bill -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
